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One of the most intriguing moments in the history of the use of protective arms in the Byzantine army is the message of the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his treatise "On the ceremonies of the Byzantine court".
Gennady Baranov
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The Theme System and Byzantine Provincial Armed Forces at the Early Palaeologian Period (1259–1328)
Introduction. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the state, nature and the leadership system of stratiotic forces as part of the Byzantine provincial armed forces of the Early Palaeologian period.
Vladimir A. Zolotovskiy
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Matrix Representation of Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus in Directed Graphs [PDF]
This paper presents a proof of correctness of an iterative approximate Byzantine consensus (IABC) algorithm for directed graphs. The iterative algorithm allows fault- free nodes to reach approximate conensus despite the presence of up to f Byzantine ...
Vaidya, Nitin
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This article analyzes a fresco from the ninth or tenth century preserved in a sepulchre church at Guzelyurt (ancient Karbala) in Cappadocia. Two officers of the Byzantine army, Leon, a skribon, who is buried there, and Michael, a turmarch, are depicted ...
Jolivet-Levy Catherine
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Many Hands Without Design:The Evolution of a Medieval Prophetic Text [PDF]
This article reconstructs the pre-manuscript history of the Sibylla Tiburtina, a late antique prophetic text, very widespread after c.1000. It argues against the prevailing belief that a single intelligence structured the Latin text to a single meaning ...
Holdenried, Anke
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The two earliest international treaties in the history of Slavic law [PDF]
The Russia-Byzantium treaties of 911 and 944 are the two earliest international agreements in the Slavic legal history, which have justifiably drawn considerable attention of legal historians since the mid-19th century.
Nikolić Dragan
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The principality of Adrianople and the challenge of feudalism: empire, Venice and local autonomy [PDF]
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Van Tricht, Filip
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The Christian Nubia and the Arabs
Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian.
Małgorzata Martens-Czarnecka
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Harald Sigurdsson and the Russo-Byzantine War of 1043
The present article analyzes Kekaumenos’ commentary on the service of Harald Sigurdsson in the Byzantine army. Special attention is given to the composition of Consilia et Narrationes and the historiographic perception of this text.
Oleksandr M. Fylypchuk
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Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
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